Joel Jones (mayor)

Joel Jones (26 October 1795-3 February 1860) was Mayor of Philadelphia (D) from 1849 to 1851, succeeding John Swift and preceding Charles Gilpin.

Biography
Joel Jones was born in Coventry, Connecticut in 1795, the oldest of nine children. He graduated from Yale University in 1817 with high honors, and he became a lawyer in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania before moving to Easton in 1822. From 1826 to 1852, he worked as a trustee of Lafayette College, and he became an associate judge in Philadelphia in 1835. From 1847 to 1849, he served as President of Girard College, and he went on to serve as Mayor of Philadelphia from 1849 to 1851. He died in 1860.